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Next day, a jailer announced: "The commissar wants you." Across a long table, Anna Louise confronted the commissar...
...What am I supposed to have done?' I demanded. The commissar quelled me with a glance. 'I'm asking the questions,' he said . . . thy name, birthplace . . . How many times in the U.S.S.R.? Over what frontiers? . . . Why should any American go back & forth to the U.S.S.R. except for subversive reasons? He had no concept of the life of a journalist...
...wanted to cry: 'But I loved your country! I wanted to write, to explain it to the world!' The words froze. He wouldn't permit them, nor would he understand them." The commissar rose to pronounce judgment: Journalist Strong was to be expelled for spying. "I tried once more to protest that I wasn't a spy ... He said, 'Dismissed,' very curtly, and I went...
Bulganin has been a faithful party henchman since the Revolution, mostly in administrative duties of various sorts. He is not a Red Army career man; when the Germans invaded Russia in 1941 he was appointed political commissar on the Moscow front, and in 1942 when the city was saved he was handed high military rank. He took over from Stalin himself as Minister of Armed Forces in 1947. Vasilevsky, a medal-shingled career soldier who came to the top in the war, distinguished himself at Sevastopol, Voronezh, Stalingrad...
...elected to the Party Central Committee, and in 1926 to the Politburo as a nominee. He has been a full member since 1935. Then he began his long stint as internal and foreign trade commissar, with the goal of raising the Soviet people's standard of eating...